3rd prize Clifford Land 25,000¥

Here is the 12 Winners:

ART MEETS SAKE アートと酒の出会い)

HAKUTAKA (Hakutaka Co. Ltd.), brewers of refined sake and PATRONS OF THE ARTS have formed a partnership to encourage, promote and support art by allowing artists to decorate sake bottles, while planning a sake art event (The Art of Sake – Appreciating Art – Appreciating Sake)

Royi Akavia

COMPETITION OVERVIEW

ART & SAKE アート＆酒

The Art of Sake – Appreciating Art, Appreciating Sake (September 14th, 2017) will introduce participants to the wonders of Japanese Sake and will feature the 12 finalists and their profiles, decorated Hakutaka Sake bottles, paintings and Limited Edition A/P prints (signed and numbered).

Our Sponsor

Rica Bradshaw Otani is an established Real Estate Agent in Kobe. She has lived in the UK and Malaysia, and traveled extensively around Europe. She has a profound interests in art, design and architecture and attempts to integrate elements of these in her real estate projects. She is passionate about finding interesting architectures, old and new. She also has commissioned to sell some of the early works of Ando Tadao. She is one of the main sponsors of the Hakutaka Sake Art Competition and The Art of Sake event, both of which are organized by KOA Production.

AWARD CEREMONY 授賞式

A celebratory event “The Art of Sake – Appreciating Art, Appreciating Sake” is being planned for September 14th, 2017. The aim is to promote participating artists and raise awareness and appreciation of sake. All artwork bottles will be displayed with the artists’ profiles, and winning artists will be announced and presented with monetary prizes by Hakutaka executives and/or local celebrities or dignitaries.

Clifford Land The Artist, the Man Clifford Land is an artist born in Detroit, MI in 1955. Land started enjoying artwork even as a child. He attended art school in Detroit while still in high school, and had to ask his Read more...

DAAS is an American artist based in the US (Florida) and Japan (Kyoto). He graduated with a degree in commercial art / graphic design in Clearwater, Florida where he maintains a studio while in the US. His work and Read more...